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...HARVARD WOMEN'S SWIM TEAM goes out to eat, they always do it in a big way, and after trouncing Yale they dined in especially fine style. Courtesy of BETTY IPPOLITO--last year's softball captain--the entire team descended upon the Ippolito restaurant in Connecticut for a lavish banquet consisting of eggplant parmesan, sausage and meatballs, salad coleslaw, potato salad, breads, chocolate cake, carrot cake and pitches of beer. Not contest to totally satiate the aquawomen, Mr. Ippolito disappeared into the kitchen where he made eggplant parmesan and meatball sandwiches for the short file back to Cambridge. "You always...
...praised I for what you only consider your duty," Ronald Reagan told the guest of honor with mock sternness at last week's annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. "Forgive me. I'm going to pull rank on you." With that, the Commander in Chief proceeded to lavish an encomium on Brigadier General James L. Dozier for bravery during his 42-day ordeal as a prisoner of Italy's Red Brigades terrorists. Added Reagan with deft simplicity: "Welcome home, soldier...
...same time, the President has promised to chart a new economic future for the country, with his own government acting as an example of austerity. Officials last week announced that there will be no more expensive military parades like the one at which Sadat was killed. The lavish celebrations Sadat had planned to commemorate the return of the Sinai are also being scaled down. As Mubarak prepared for his first visit as President to the U.S. this week, he left behind a nation unmistakably on the mend from the trauma of Sadat's assassination...
...which opens with suitable fanfare to the New York public this week, is certainly the most spectacular permanent exhibition of "primitive" art (though not the best collection of it) that can be seen in any museum anywhere in the world. Never before has white Western culture paid such lavish homage to the black, brown and red cultures that, since 1500, it colonized, cheated, evangelized, enslaved and, not infrequently, destroyed. There are too many bones beneath this monument to enable anyone to contemplate it without deep ambivalence...
...which has won the meet for the past two years, offers lavish scholarships to its athletes and therefore is not normally scheduled to square off against the Crimson squad during the season. When perusing a potent B.U. lineup that includes 27-year-old sophomore Julie White--a favorite in both the long and high jumps--Hunt sighs, "What the hell are we supposed...